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  • Green Gentrification and Environmental Injustice

    A Complexity Approach to Policy

    by Heather E. Campbell, Adam Eckerd, Yushim Kim ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book argues that, given the complex nature of the urban environment, we cannot find one optimal solution to reducing environmental injustice, in part because there is no singular cause. Environmental injustice emerges in particular settings because of the combined and interdependent effects of a variety of different policy and community characteristics. The authors argue that addressing these ... Read more

    $153.69 CAD

  • Rethinking Environmental Justice in Sustainable Cities

    Insights from Agent-Based Modeling

    by Heather E. Campbell, Yushim Kim, Adam M. Eckerd ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Public Administration and Environmental Sustainability
    As the study of environmental policy and justice becomes increasingly significant in today’s global climate, standard statistical approaches to gathering data have become less helpful at generating new insights and possibilities. None of the conventional frameworks easily allow for the empirical modeling of the interactions of all the actors involved, or for the emergence of outcomes unintended by ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

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  • Caring for Children

    Social Movements and Public Policy in Canada

    by Rachel Langford, Patrizia Albanese, Susan Prentice ...
    Social inequality. Selective political attention. Insufficient funding and access. Caring for Children provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary examination of the crisis in care for Canadian children and their caregivers.Couched in the language of choice, government policies on the care of Canadian children over the past decade have favoured professional, nuclear families while doing little to ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Cities by Design

    The Social Life of Urban Form

    by Fran Tonkiss ...
    Who makes our cities, and what part do everyday users have in the design of cities? This book powerfully shows that city-making is a social process and examines the close relationship between the social and physical shaping of urban environments.With cities taking a growing share of the global population, urban forms and urban experience are crucial for understanding social injustice, economic ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Economics of Poverty

    History, Measurement, and Policy

    by Martin Ravallion ...
    There are fewer people living in extreme poverty in the world today than 30 years ago. While that is an achievement, continuing progress for poor people is far from assured. Inequalities in access to key resources threaten to stall growth and poverty reduction in many places. The world's poorest have made only a small absolute gain over those 30 years. Progress has been slow against relative ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

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  • Rethinking Economics

    An Introduction to Pluralist Economics

    Edited by J. Christopher Proctor ...
    Economics is a broad and diverse discipline, but most economics textbooks only cover one way of thinking about the economy. This book provides an accessible introduction to nine different approaches to economics: from feminist to ecological and Marxist to behavioural. Each chapter is written by a leading expert in the field described and is intended to stand on its own as well as providing an ... Read more

    $85.19 CAD

  • Transport Justice

    Designing fair transportation systems

    by Karel Martens ...
    Transport Justice develops a new paradigm for transportation planning based on principles of justice. Author Karel Martens starts from the observation that for the last fifty years the focus of transportation planning and policy has been on the performance of the transport system and ways to improve it, without much attention being paid to the persons actually using – or failing to use – that ... Read more

    $105.80 CAD

  • Immigration Economics

    by George J. Borjas ...
    Millions of people—nearly 3 percent of the world’s population—no longer live in the country where they were born. Every day, migrants enter not only the United States but also developed countries without much of a history of immigration. Some of these nations have switched in a short span of time from being the source of immigrants to being a destination for them. International migration is today ... Read more

    $68.19 CAD

  • The Global State of Gender Equality: An Overview of Empirical Findings

    Gender Equality, #2

    by Milos Kankaras ...
    Series Book 2 - Gender Equality
    Despite the persistent data gaps, a large amount of empirical evidence on the state of gender equality has been gathered worldwide, especially during the last few decades. This international data-gathering activity over the last decade largely revolved around the UN's 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Still, many other global, regional, and national initiatives and empirical programs have ... Read more

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  • Social Mobility

    by Anthony Heath, Yaojun Li ...
    Series series Key Concepts
    Social mobility has long been one of the central topics of sociology. It has been the subject of major theoretical contributions from the earliest generations of scholars, as well as being of persistent political interest and concern. Social mobility is frequently used as a key measure of fairness and social justice, given the central role that modern liberal democracies give to equality of ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Cities, Economic Inequality and Justice

    Reflections and Alternative Perspectives

    by Edwin Buitelaar, Anet Weterings, Roderik Ponds ...
    Series series Routledge Focus on Economics and Finance
    Increasing economic inequality in cities, and the spatial translation of that into more segregated neighbourhoods, is top of the political agenda in developed countries. While the overall living standards have increased in the last century, the focus has now shifted from poverty to economic differences, with a particular focus on the gap between the very poor and the (ultra-)rich.The authors ... Read more

    $48.08 CAD

  • Welfare Reform in Canada

    Provincial Social Assistance in Comparative Perspective

    Edited by Pierre-Marc Daigneault, Daniel Béland ...
    Series series The Johnson-Shoyama Series on Public Policy
    Welfare Reform in Canada provides systematic knowledge of Canadian social assistance by assessing provincial welfare regimes and emphasizing changes since the late twentieth century. The book examines activation, social investment, and economic inequalities and provides nuanced perspectives on social welfare across Canada's provinces in relation to trends and issues in the country and beyond. ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD